The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even though more people died.

Deep within the dense canopy of ancient trees and tangled undergrowth that unfolded over the island of Guadalcanal like a ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

BBC's Tokyo correspondent Shaimaa Khalil explains why in Japan the 15 August is a mourning occasion known as the "Memorial ...

Japan signed documents of surrender 80 years ago this week. America's stability in the decades that followed was built on the ...

FUKUOKA, Japan — Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored Friday with a solemn ceremony that also reckoned with the ...

Donald McPherson shot down five planes in the Pacific theater in the final years of the war, earning him the title of "ace" ...

As they fly wing to wing over a vital spot in the development of the atomic bomb, a native of Japan and a former US military officer hope their friendship outshines the horror of the blasts that took ...